Joy Reid suggests Trump couldn’t ‘avoid the consequences’ of his own rhetoric after assassination attempt

Political violence is ‘so dangerous that you cannot avoid the consequences of it, even if you’re one of the people promoting it,’ she said

MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested on-air Monday that former President Trump bore the “consequences” of “promoting” violence during a discussion about the assassination attempt over the weekend.

Reid, who joined MSNBC’s live coverage in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, made the comment after Rachel Maddow said she hopes a level of “sobriety” will emerge surrounding political violence, calling it “no freaking joke” and “nothing that anybody should play with, ever.” She, too, seemed to imply Trump reaped the whirlwind.

“Violence, among everything else, is very unpredictable. Once it’s part of your political system, you never know which direction it’s going to go,” Maddow said. “Nobody can harness it in one direction only, it doesn’t work that way.”

Reid agreed and proceeded to relay the “one time” in her career that she felt afraid on the job, at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, when armed men were “pacing” near her booth in a “menacing” manner to “send a message.”

She likened her experience to reports of voter intimidation in the 2022 midterms where a group of armed members of Clean Elections USA were ordered to stay at least 250 feet away from certain polling locations in Arizona, after complaints that people carrying guns and wearing masks were intimidating voters.

“I think about the people who tried to vote in Arizona when men with long guns were standing outside of the polling places to send them a message,” Reid said. “‘If you don’t vote the right way, I’m here with this gun.'”